Featured Artist for October
These are all acrylic on 1.5″ canvas, all unframed except that I made a custom frame for the picture above the little table after it was sold. I think they are quite nice either way.
I painted them all in 2019, some as recently as last week, so they are highly representative of my current output
Fur and Feathers…a show of wildlife art by Emil Morhardt and Claudia Chapman running through September 2019
This barn owl (named by the Audubon Society Eyes in the Sky project) is housed in their facility at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and comes out in public every afternoon. I painted her with an eponymous barn and an imaginary friend using primarily transparent acrylics, finishing the painting with several coats of matte acrylic varnish, which give the it an ethereal quality.
These three curlews were striding together along Hendry’s Beach in Santa Barbara when I photographed them in this great pose. I painted them with a white background with just a hint of reflection to emphasize the birds themselves.
UGallery is a 10-year-old curated online art gallery and, I hope, a good place to sell.
These are all nicely matted 8″ x 10″ watercolors on Arches 140 lb cold-pressed paper, $125 each from my bin at Gallery 113.
This is a group show at the newly renamed Inspiration Gallery, 1528 State Street, Santa Barbara, along with four landscape artists. The opening reception (open to the public) is May 11, 5:00-7:00 pm.
Emil Morhardt Fine Art 